inflation, lower than '68 when lyndon johnson was president. what can house democrats do given barriers you face on the hill? >> i think first of all we have to depend on people across the country. minimum wage workers who really need a raise, people who work in restaurants whose wages haven't been raised since 1991. $2.13 an hour. so i think it's going to take really an outside push in every single congressional district to help my colleagues, my republican colleagues understand that this is about how we grow our gdp. it's about how we grow our economy, and it's about closing that gap between those highest wage earners who earn so much over these last two decades and low wage earners who earn about 5% of their increases in salaries over the last decades. >> you've seen protests around the country today. they are gathering and bigger protests tonight. talk to me about what a man or a woman working for minimum wage, sometimes second job, sometimes their only job, they have kids at home in some of these fast-food places. how are they coping. what